31. XII. 1917

Comrade Sverdlov! Please speak with Ganetsky regarding the delegation from the CEC abroad 27.

Lenin

(Perhaps also check what the International Department of the CEC has accomplished in the matter of Baska - Melenovsky?)

Published for the first time from the manuscript

Written 31 December 1917

(13 January 1918)

First printed incompletely

in 1933 in Lenin Miscellany XXI

Printed here in full